 If there is a first principle in intellectual education, it is this — that the discipline which does good to the mind is that in which the mind is active, not that in which it is passive. The secret for developing the faculties is to give them much...  Once a Week - Page 166edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - 1852 - 672 pages
...give to their intellects the greatest part of such cultivation as they receive. If there is a first principle in intellectual education, it is this —...give them much to do, and much inducement to do it. This detracts nothing from the importance, and even necessity, of other kinds of mental cultivation.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1852 - 640 pages
...give to their intellects the greatest part of such cultivation as they receive. If there is a first principle in intellectual education, it is this —...give them much to do, and much inducement to do it. This detracts nothing from the importance, and even necessity, of other kinds of mental cultivation.... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1860 - 508 pages
...himself." — From the Report of the Ohio State Commissioner of Statistics, 1859. " If there is a first principle in intellectual education it is this —...good to the mind is that in which the mind is active, uot that in which it is passive. The secret for developing the faculties is to give them much to do,... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1860 - 544 pages
...neglected, and which can be provided for only by varied efforts of the will and intelligence ? * * * discipline which does good to the mind is that in...mind is active, not that in which it is passive." — Principles of Political Economy, by J. Stuart Mill. The benefit to the African which is supposed... | |
 | FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED - 1861 - 408 pages
...himself?" — From the Report of the Ohio State Commissioner of Statistics, 1859. " If there is a first principle in intellectual education it is this —...give them much to do, and much inducement to do it." — Mill's Political Economy. The field-hand negro is, on an average, a very poor and very bad creature,... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1861 - 428 pages
...Commissioner of Statiftict, 1850. " If there is a first principle in intellectual education it is this—that the discipline which does good to the mind is that...to give them much to do, and much inducement to do it."—Mill.s Political Economy. The field-hand negro is, on an average, a very poor an.1 very bad... | |
 | FEDERICK LAW OLMSTED - 1862 - 412 pages
...Commissioner of ¡Statistics, 1859. "If there is a first principle in intellectual education it is this—that the discipline which does good to the mind is that...developing the faculties is to give them much to do, and muck inducement to do it."~*«-Mill s Political Economy. The field-hand negro is, on an average, a... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1866 - 628 pages
...give to their intellects the greatest part of such cultivation as they receive. If there is a first principle in intellectual education, it is this —...that in which the mind is active, not that in which « is passive. The secret for developing the faculties is to give them much to do, and much inducement... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1870 - 140 pages
...give to their intellects the greatest part of such cultivation as they receive. If there is a first principle in intellectual education, it is this —...give them much to do, and much inducement to do it. This detracts nothing from the importance, and even necessity, of other kinds of mental cultivation.... | |
 | 1873 - 372 pages
...never be told_ what they can be led to find out for themselves. Says Stuart Mill : "If there is a first principle in intellectual education, it is this —...discipline which does good to the mind, is that in which tho mind is active, not that in which it is passive. The secret for developing the faculties is to... | |
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